Collected meteorites

Collected meteorites

Tribune photo by Phil Velasquez

Lance Grande, left, head of collection and research at the Field Museum in Chicago, holds a meteorite from Canyon Diablo, Ariz., and geologist Jim Holstein holds a meteorite from Spring Water, Saskatchewan. The Field Museum has become home to the world's largest collection of meteorites held outside a government agency, the result of a gift of funding and meteorites worth more than $10 million. The Field is establishing the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies.

Lance Grande, left, head of collection and research at the Field Museum in Chicago, holds a meteorite from Canyon Diablo, Ariz., and geologist Jim Holstein holds a meteorite from Spring Water, Saskatchewan. The Field Museum has become home to the world's largest collection of meteorites held outside a government agency, the result of a gift of funding and meteorites worth more than $10 million. The Field is establishing the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies. (Tribune photo by Phil Velasquez)

Lance Grande, left, head of collection and research at the Field Museum in Chicago, holds a meteorite from Canyon Diablo, Ariz., and geologist Jim Holstein holds a meteorite from Spring Water, Saskatchewan. The Field Museum has become home to the world's largest collection of meteorites held outside a government agency, the result of a gift of funding and meteorites worth more than $10 million. The Field is establishing the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies.